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     <div id="header"><h2 style="margin-right: 1.5em;">Description of MS N: <span
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<p>London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A.iii comprises two volumes, one a miscellany containing prayers,
prosnostications, and penitential texts, and the other the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Rule</span> of St.
Benedict, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Regularis Concordia</span>, and
the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Colloquy</span> attributed to &AElig;lfric, which is glossed in Old English. The penitential texts are
found on ff. 44r, 54v-56v, 94v-96v; the description below is largely confined to these folios.</p>
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This is a manuscript of s. xi<sup>med</sup>, from Christ's Church, Canterbury (Ker, p. 240). Catalogue numbers: Ker #286, Gneuss #363. 
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<p><a href="mschcta3.html">Table 1</a> shows the content of the manuscript by folio.</p>

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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Dimensions</span>: c. 240 mm x 177 mm., written space 184-217 x 130-160 mm. The
binding is s. xix (Ker, p. 247).</p>
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Collation: There are  172 folios, foliated 2-173.  An earlier foliation was two behind to fol. 97,
then three behind.  The MS was damaged in the 1731 fire and the leaves are now
separately bound, but Ker says that ff. 117-73 should precede ff. 2-116, since f. 117r
contains a table of contents (s. xii in) shows wear that suggests it was an outer leaf
(see p. 241 and p. 247).</p>
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Gatherings:  :  ". . . the pricking, ruling, etc., suggest that ff. 3-50, 57-88, 96-111,
118-57 are 17 regular quires, each of 8 leaves" (Ker, p. 247).</p>
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The average number of  lines per page ranges from 21 long lines (ff. 126-33) to 35 (ff.
73-95). These figures vary: 29 lines, ff. 43-58 (Hands 4 and 5), 35 lines, ff. 73-95
(Hand 3), 33 lines, ff. 96-103 (Hand 4).</p>

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"Two distinct hands in Latin are (1) ff. 2-37v, 57-65v; (2) ff. 118-73.  Three distinct
hands in OE are (3) ff. 2-27v (gloss), 37v-42v, 60v-64v (gloss), 65v-95v; (4) ff 27v-37v (gloss),
46v-56v, 96-107v; (5) 43-45" (Ker, p. 248).</p>
<p>Correlated with penitential content, the hands are as follows:<br/>
f. 44r:  Hand 5 <br/>
ff. 54v-56v, 96rv:  Hand 4: with the addition at 51.02.01 attributed to hand6, Fowler's
"very small hand," Ker's (p. 240) "small upward-sloping hand of s. xi2" (on fol. 55v
and 56).<br/>
ff.  94v-95v:  Hand 3 <br/>
hand 7 might be the correcting hand to 94v-95, but the corrections and additions to
these pages may be Hand3.</p>
<p>"Eluricus Bate" is written at the head of the table of contents on f. 117 and is
identified as Bata, thought at one time to be the author of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Regularis
Concordia</span> (ff. 118-63v, in Latin and OE). "Eadwi m[. . .] me ah" is written f.
164, s. xi ex (Ker, p. 240).
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Punctuation f. 44 is on line; punctuation elsewhere in these texts is mid-line.</p>
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Extensive corrections of s. xi/2 "in brown ink, in a small upward-sloping hand," are on ff. 55v and 56. Hands 4 and 5 are responsible for 81 c-shaped accents "apparently
marking short vowels" (Ker, p. 248). C-accents in the database are coded as circumflexes.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Introduction</span><br/>
Part 1: 96b-97b, Part 2: 97b.<br/>
A text that parallels in parts of Part 1 is found fol. 54v-55r and has been transcribed and translated for purposes of comparison.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Handbook</span><br/>
Be misd&aelig;da (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Handbook</span> IV.38): 44a <br/>       
Ordo confessionis S. Hieronymi, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Handbook</span> I: 55a-55b    <br/>
&AElig;fter &thorn;issum arise eadmodlice to his scrifte, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Handbook</span>
II: 55b-56a <br/>
&ETH;&aelig;t sceal ge &thorn;encean: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Handbook</span> III: 56a-56b  <br/>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Handbook</span> III, IV, V: 94b-96b</br/> See the description of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">OE Handbook</span> for an explanation of the division of the books in this manuscript. 
     
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<p>This <a href="mschcta3.html">table</a> contains a list of chapters by folio.
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